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Let’s kick off this week’s comment hall of fame with the reason for the headline. When we published a story on the NRA’s grades for Florida politicians — including an outstanding A-plus for Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and F-minus for state Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Coral Springs — one Facebook commenter wanted to know:

Leaving all the anti-abortion rhetoric aside, there’s a good reason we wrote a story on the NRA scorecard — the NRA had just released its scorecard. That makes it news. We publish news.

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